Take a break on Summit Avenue
If you need a break
from winter
and want to be inspired
with images
of far away places,
let's arrange for you to
join me in my studio
for an international tour
via art.
We practice careful social distancing,
with masks and a HEPA air filter, and
I would be happy to welcome you.
Sincerely,
~ Carrie
To schedule a personal visit please contact Joy Wolfe at advocateforartists@gmail.com or call (612) 644-0756.
Art as an Oasis™
from the gallery of
Carolyn C.S. Kleinberger
as vaccines make travel foreseeable again
~ souvenirs from past travels ~
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.
– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
One will not break through to the enemy with theory. Directness is most important, when in front of the lion's den.
– Rati Tsiteladze
film producer,
former world martial arts champion
Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet
or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?
– Walker Percy
American author
of novels infused with philosophy
The Cowardly Lion
Courage. What makes a King out of a slave? Courage.
What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage.
What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist or the dusky dusk?
What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage.
What makes the Sphinx the 7th Wonder? Courage.
What makes the dawn come up like THUNDER?! Courage.
What makes the Hottentot so hot?
What puts the "ape" in ape-ricot?
Whatta they got that I ain't got?
Dorothy, The Tin Man, and the Scarecrow
Courage!
The Cowardly Lion
You can say that again!
The Wizard of Oz
from the 1939 movie
based on L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
artist statement
This painting combines objects that originated
1500 miles apart. The two lions come from Thailand, a gift from my daughter. The globes come from China, a gift from a very kind law student in Beijing who showed me around her campus while my husband presented a paper. The lions, which are made of stone, have the center location, while the globes have the brighter colors. Lions sometimes inhabit the darkness.
– CCSK
"Thai Lions"
Oil on Canvas
16 x 16
2017
"Globes of Light"
Oil on Canvas
38.5 x 28 in
2013
Private Collection
Reproductions Available
Art as an Oasis™
from the gallery of
Carolyn C.S. Kleinberger
as vaccines make travel foreseeable again
~ souvenirs from past travels ~
Travel does what good novelists also do
to the life of everyday, placing it like a
picture in a frame or a gem in its setting,
so that the intrinsic qualities are made
more clear. Travel does this with the very
stuff that everyday life is made of, giving
to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.
– Dame Freya Stark
British travel writer, who died in 1993 at the age of 101;
many of her trips were to remote areas in Turkey and the Middle East
where few Europeans, particularly women, had traveled before.
There are two ways of spreading light:
to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
– Edith Wharton
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
[I]n grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs.
Round and round. Everything repeats.
Am I going in circles,
or dare I hope I am on a spiral?
– C.S. Lewis
artist statement
This painting depicts the large,
ornate antechamber of a house of worship, and,
like the painting posted last week, is set in Turkey.
Globes of light, manifold in an ascending spiral,
draw the eye upward, along with one's thoughts
and perhaps also the spirit.
– CCSK
Art as an Oasis™
a series of occasional postings from
the art of Carrie Kleinberger
providing a temporary respite from both
mundane and monumental cares
words of wisdom from a diversity of others
for a season ordinarily full of celebrations and gatherings around food:
~ a collection of simple comestibles and potables ~
(this week – fruit with style)
Everyone knew you shouldn't go biting into fruit offered to you by magical creatures in the woods, even if you'd thought until just five minutes ago that such stories were, you know, only stories.
– Molly Ringle, The Goblins of Bellwater
The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfills Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Morte d'Arthur
You are the sunshine of my life, That's
why I'll always be around,
You are the apple of my eye, Forever
you'll stay in my heart.
– Stevie Wonder, You Are The Sunshine of My Life
For some stories, it's easy. The moral of
'The Three Bears,' for instance is "Never break into someone else's house." The moral of 'Snow White' is "Never eat apples." The moral of World War I is
"Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand."
– Daniel Handler
artist statement
At the Jewish new year (in the fall), Jews
customarily share apples and honey to
offer and share hopes for a sweet new year.
This painting depicts a plate of apples
prepared for that purpose and shows
contrasting colors, shapes, and textures. Perhaps paradoxically, the center of the painting
is not an apple but rather a half grape atop an apple slice. The Jewish new year is already three months past, but nothing prevents us from offering apples, honey, and hopes of sweetness for the secular new year as well.
Best Wishes For A Happy Healthy New Year!!
– CCSK
"Apples For The New Year"
Oil on Linen
8 x 8 in
2019
"In a Parisian Market"
Oil on Canvas
15.5" x 27.5"
2008
Art as an Oasis™
from the gallery of
Carolyn C.S. Kleinberger
as vaccines make travel foreseeable again
~ souvenirs from past travels ~
Travel does what good novelists also do
to the life of everyday, placing it like a
picture in a frame or a gem in its setting,
so that the intrinsic qualities are made
more clear. Travel does this with the very
stuff that everyday life is made of, giving
to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.
– Dame Freya Stark
British travel writer, who died in 1993 at the age of 101;
many of her trips were to remote areas in Turkey and the Middle East
where few Europeans, particularly women, had traveled before.
Paris is always a good idea.
Audrey Hepburn
(in the movie, Sabrina)
A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.
Thomas Jefferson
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke in French;
I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Mark Twain
We'll always have Paris.
Rick to Ilsa
Casablanca
artist statement
This painting is the epitome of "imaginative painting." The oranges, their basket, its labels – are from a Parisian market. The ducklings are from a sketch I made at the Minnesota State Fair.
–CCSK
"Curious Cat in a Carpet Shop"
Oil on Canvas
25.5" x 33.5"
2013
"Annapolis Lion"
Oil on Canvas
16.5" x 13.25"
2016
Art as an Oasis™
from the gallery of
Carolyn C.S. Kleinberger
as vaccines make travel foreseeable again
~ souvenirs from past travels ~
Travel does what good novelists also do
to the life of everyday, placing it like a
picture in a frame or a gem in its setting,
so that the intrinsic qualities are made
more clear. Travel does this with the very
stuff that everyday life is made of, giving
to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.
– Dame Freya Stark
British travel writer, who died in 1993 at the age of 101;
many of her trips were to remote areas in Turkey and the Middle East
where few Europeans, particularly women, had traveled before.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
– Leonardo da Vinci
The most beautiful thing we can experience
is the mysterious. It is the source of all
true art and science.
– Albert Einstein, Living Philosophies
I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years.
I live well.
Tommy Kirk
who as a child actor starred in
Old Yeller and Swiss Family Robinson
artist statement
One small, curious cat sitting inside a brown cabinet. A seemingly endless number of folded carpets in a shop in Turkey. I keep waiting
for the cat to move.
–CCSK
Art as an Oasis™
from the gallery of
Carolyn C.S. Kleinberger
as vaccines make travel foreseeable again
~ souvenirs from past travels ~
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.
– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Until the lion tells his side of the story,
the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
Zimbabwean Proverb
The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions
of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion.
A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.
Osho, Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb,
and the rose grow without thorn.
Martin Amis
artist statement
In actuality, this lion is fewer than eight inches tall – it decorates one end of a wooden mantelpiece in a restaurant located in a very old house in Annapolis, Maryland. But in my imagination, and I hope in this painting, the lion is solitary, powerful, and even frightening.
– CCSK